The hazard perception test was a great addition in my opinion.
(Basically a video plays and you have to press a button when something dangerous has happened).
I passed my driving test 30+ years ago and then took the HPT as part of a motorcycle test 15 years later.
Paying attention (to the kid bouncing a ball at the side of the road, to the cyclist when it's windy weather etc) is a key part of road craft and I hope this made it much clearer with some (contrived) examples. TBH I just wish they let you click earlier (for _potential_ threats - i.e. before they step into the road, not just afterwards).
This sounds reasonable. However there was a study showing major economic benefits if was free. These benefits came from more people implementing it, time saved by all those additional users, removal of licensing hassle.
I wish companies were more environmentally conscious and stopped churning out swag. It's such a waste. Much of it you would never have bought, most is low quality. We don't need it.
I've asked them:
a) _what_ details may have been involved. Currently the criminals know more than we do.
b) why EBT had any data if Wise stopped working with then in 2023.
I'd except there to be a fairly strong obligation (probably on both parties) under GDPR to ensure that EBT destroyed that data.
I still remember playing Quake on Linux - with the X display being displayed on a different computer over the network. The different computer was running HP-UX (HP's Unix) on a PA-RISC chip.
I'm not sure it can replace non-trivial setups - sudo/doas looks set to stay.
e.g when you need to restrict a set of users to run only certain applications with certain other users. sudo can do this (even if the config format can be painful).
No major spoilers that I noticed. Really recommend reading the books, each was pretty mind blowing to me in a different way. The best kind of sci-fi - that which makes you think and wonder.
I've only seen this behaviour once. Someone very publicly shouted at and then privately apologised to.
Needless to say the shouter lost any respect I had for them - firstly for blaming without facts, secondly for being so pathetic they didn't make a public apology.
The victim in this case went up in my estimation and us now a very successful team leader.
IIRC they did something related a long time ago when you could get a 8 CPU box which was physically restricted to 6 CPUs purely so that it didn't fit into the "can have 8 CPU" Oracle license.
About 2/3rds of the servers we sold at the time probably went to run Oracle and it gave us a massive TCO (total cost of ownership) advantage compared with other vendors, especially as the POWER chips were faster than the competition too.
When most of the cost is in the software, the choice of hardware can still make a big difference.
GeForce Now was/is great. Bethesda though (amongst others) have lost a formerly loyal fan due to pulling their games. Why? I own the games, I paid for them. If I had my old PC still I could play them just the same.
Presumably so that in several years they can run their own cloud service.
The greed of companies will be their own downfall.
Might want to change the subtitles from "that was sick" to "that was disgusting" just to prevent anyone misinterpreting that (unintentionally or otherwise) as "sick" is slang for "excellent" in some places.
It's particularly silly when you consider the number of offices and timezones.
Not only is a large amount of interaction via video call, when on site there'll be a shortage of rooms and the sound quality is usually pretty dire.
I think there's a better idea: how should you become a better you.
Attempting to be 100x better "than the rest" strikes me as a _very_ unhealthy approach. To paraphrase an answer I read somewhere else:
"The best way to be a 10x developer is to make 10 of your colleagues twice as effective"
Note that _you_ don't achieve anything more - you've just unlocked the potential elsewhere. It's also immensely satisfying - much more so than being a "rockstar" developer (also known in many circles as the "a*hole").
Looping back to your question:
- look around you - solving a key problem currently ignored could be the best thing you can do for the company
- compound interest - invest in making repeated actions better (automation, cookie-cutters etc)
- improve efficiency - IMO docs, single source of truth are typically seriously undervalued leading to questions and mistakes both of which waste a lot of time
- take a healthier attitude - it comes across to me as a rather immature "look at me, aren't I _amazing_" desire which will rub people up the wrong way.
- learn at every opportunity - senior devs don't know everything - I've also learnt from kids still at school, sales people, friends...